An interwoven Fe3L3 trigonal metallamacrocycle from an in situ ligand hydrolysis reaction

Qing-Fu Zhang; Fei-Long Jiang; You-Gui Huang; Wei Wei; Qiang Gao; Ming Yang; Ke-Cai Xiong; Mao-Chun Hong

doi:10.1039/b817929h

An interwoven Fe3L3 trigonal metallamacrocycle from an in situ ligand hydrolysis reaction

Dalton Trans. 2009 Apr 21:(15):2673-6. doi: 10.1039/b817929h. Epub 2008 Dec 24.

Authors

Qing-Fu Zhang¹, Fei-Long Jiang, You-Gui Huang, Wei Wei, Qiang Gao, Ming Yang, Ke-Cai Xiong, Mao-Chun Hong

Affiliation

¹ State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, China.

PMID: 19333488
DOI: 10.1039/b817929h

Abstract

Through an in situ hydrolysis reaction of the bishydrazone ligand H4L1 [H4L1=(HOC6H4)CH=NNHCO(C5H3N)CONHN[double bond, length as m-dash]CH(C6H4OH)], in the presence of Fe(III) ions, an interwoven trigonal metallamacrocycle [Fe3L3(H2O)3].9H2O () [H3L=(HOC6H4)CH=NNHCO(C5H3N)CO2H] containing unusually double-layered capsule-like water hexamers was obtained and characterized by elemental analysis, FT-IR, TGA, ESI-MS and X-ray crystallography.